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Author Topic: Generation 1 Headlight Motor R & D Help Needed  (Read 14966 times)

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Fierofool

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Generation 1 Headlight Motor R & D Help Needed
« on: October 17, 2011, 11:12:53 pm »
Many of us who have rebuilt our Generation 1 headlight motors have encountered a problem with the motor continuing to
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Re: Generation 1 Headlight Motor R & D Help Needed
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2011, 08:28:09 am »
If I was a little closer or if you brought it up I'd build it for you. Thay are fairly easy to build.
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Re: Generation 1 Headlight Motor R & D Help Needed
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2011, 08:58:28 am »
Rebuilding them isn't the problem.  I've rebuilt many of them.  The problem is that after rebuilding, using the materials provided, they continue to try to run.  I'm trying to develop something that will stop that problem.  The only way I can know that it works for others is to have them replace the rubber bumpstops supplied with the rebuild kits with my bumpstops. 

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Re: Generation 1 Headlight Motor R & D Help Needed
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2011, 07:52:52 pm »
There's a piece inside that kind of looks like a set of the older points. You have to bend the tangs in opposing positions that way when they bottom out they will kill the power supply and shut the motors down.
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